Marguerite is a French female given name, from which the English name
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Iranian languages, Old Iranian. It has been an English language, English name since the 11th century, and remained popular thro ...
is derived. Marguerite derives via Latin and Greek μαργαρίτης ''(margarítēs)'', meaning "
pearl
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle (mollusc), mantle) of a living Exoskeleton, shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pear ...
". It is also a French name for the
ox-eye daisy
''Leucanthemum vulgare'', commonly known as the ox-eye daisy, oxeye daisy, dog daisy, marguerite (, "common marguerite") and other common names, is a widespread flowering plant native to Europe and the temperate regions of Asia, and an introduced ...
flower. Those with the name include:
People
Nobility
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Margaret of Bourbon (1438–1483) or Marguerite de Bourbon, Princess of Savoy by marriage
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Margaret of France (1553–1615) or Marguerite de Valois, wife of Henry IV of France and
Navarre
Navarre ( ; ; ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and New Aquitaine in France. ...
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Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry
Margaret of Valois, Duchess of Berry (French: ''Marguerite de Valois'') (5 June 1523 – 15 September 1574) was Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy. She was the daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude, Duche ...
or Marguerite de Valois (1523–1574), daughter of King Francis I of France
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Margaret, Countess of Anjou or Marguerite d'Angou (1273–1299), Countess of Anjou and Maine in her own right and Countess of Valois, Alençon, Chartres and Perche by marriage
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Marguerite de Navarre
Marguerite de Navarre (, ''Marguerite d'Alençon''; 11 April 149221 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry, and Queen of Navarre by her second mar ...
(1492–1549), princess of France, Queen of Navarre and Duchess of Alençon and Berry
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Marguerite III de Neufchâtel (1480–1544), German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France
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Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (1645–1721), Grand Duchess of Tuscany by marriage
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Marguerite of Lorraine (1615–1672), princess of Lorraine and Duchess of Orléans by marriage
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Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter (1912–2009), European aristocrat and member of the family that founded the Reuters news service
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Marguerite, bâtarde de France
Marguerite de Valois, ''la demoiselle de Belleville'', also known as Marguerite, bâtarde de France (1407 – January 1458), was the illegitimate daughter of Charles VI of France and his mistress Odette de Champdivers.
Marguerite was legitimate ...
(1407–1458), illegitimate daughter of Charles VI and Odette de Champdivers, legitimized by Charles VII
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Marguerite, Duchess of Rohan (1617–1684), French noblewoman
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Princess Marguerite Adélaïde of Orléans (1846–1893), princess of France and, by marriage, princess of the House of Czartoryski
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Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux (1850–1930), French aristocrat and salonnière
* Marguerite Aimery Harty de Pierrebourg (1856–1943), French baroness, salonnière and writer published as
Claude Ferval
Other
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Marguerite Alibert
Marguerite Marie Alibert (9 December 1890 – 2 January 1971), also known as Maggie Meller, Marguerite Laurent, and Princess Fahmy, was a French socialite. She started her career as a prostitute and later courtesan in Paris, and from 1917 to 19 ...
(1890–1971), French socialite and
courtesan
A courtesan is a prostitute with a courtly, wealthy, or upper-class clientele. Historically, the term referred to a courtier, a person who attended the court of a monarch or other powerful person.
History
In European feudal society, the co ...
, mistress of
Edward VIII
Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January ...
, acquitted of killing her husband at the
Savoy Hotel
The Savoy Hotel is a luxury hotel located in the Strand in the City of Westminster in central London, England. Built by the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte with profits from his Gilbert and Sullivan opera productions, it opened on 6 August 1 ...
in London.
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Marguerite Bériza (1880–after 1930), French opera soprano
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Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700), saint and founder of the
Congregation of Notre Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Marguerite Broquedis
Marguerite Marie Broquedis (; married names Billout-Bordes; 17 April 1893 – 23 April 1983) was a French tennis player. In major tournaments she won the singles title at the 1912 World Hard Court Championships – Women's singles, 1912 World Ha ...
(1893–1983), French tennis player
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Marguerite Carré (1880–1947), French opera soprano
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Marguerite Charpentier (1848-1904), French art collector and salonist
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Marguerite Davis (1887–1967), American chemist, co-discoverer of vitamins A and B
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Marguerite de Angeli (1889–1987), American writer and illustrator of children's books
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Marguerite De La Motte (1902–1950), American film actress
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Marguerite de la Sablière (c. 1640–1693), French salonist and polymath
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Marguerite Derricks (born 1961), American choreographer
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Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) ea ...
(1914–1996), French writer and film director
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Marguerite Fourrier (fl. 1900), French tennis player
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Marguerite Frank (born 1927), American−French mathematician
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Marguerite Gaut (1888–1967), American golfer
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Marguerite Genès (1868–1955), French woman of letters and teacher who wrote in Occitan and French
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Marguerite Georges (1787–1867), noted French actress who had an affair with Napoleon
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Marguerite Grépon (1891–1982), French journalist and writer
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Marguerite Henry (1902–1997), American writer of children's books
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Marguerite Henry (scientist) (1895–1982), Australian zoologist
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Marguerite Higgins Hall (1920-1966), American war correspondent and first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence for her coverage of the Korean War
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Marguerite Kirmse (1885–1954), British-American artist
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Marguerite L. Smith (1894–1985), New York assemblywoman 1920–1921
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Marguerite Vincent Lawinonkié (1783-1865), Huron-Wendat craftswoman
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Marguerite Long (1874–1966), French pianist and teacher
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Marguerite St. Leon Loud (1812-1889), American poet and writer
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Marguerite Louppe (1902–1989), French painter
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Marguerite Mareuse (1889–1964), French racing driver
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Marguerite Massart (1900–1979), first woman to graduate as an engineer in Belgium.
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Marguerite Moore (1849–?), Irish-Catholic orator, patriot, activist
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Marguerite Moreau (born 1977), American actress
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Marguerite Narbel (1918–2010), Swiss biologist and politician
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Marguerite Norris
Marguerite Ann Norris (February 16, 1927 – May 12, 1994), also known as Marguerite Riker or Marguerite Norris-Riker, was an American ice hockey executive. She was the first female team executive in National Hockey League (NHL) history.
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(1927–1994), Detroit Red Wings team president, first female NHL team executive, first woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup
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Marguerite Perey
Marguerite Catherine Perey (19 October 1909 – 13 May 1975) was a French physicist and a student of Marie Curie. In 1939, Perey discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium. In 1962, she was the fi ...
(1909–1975), French physicist
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Marguerite Perrin, American ''Trading Spouses'' participant
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Marguerite Pindling
Dame Marguerite Pindling, Lady Pindling, ( McKenzie; born 26 June 1932) served as the tenth governor-general of the Bahamas, from 8 July 2014 to 28 June 2019. She is the second female governor-general of the Bahamas after Ivy Dumont, Dame Ivy D ...
(born 1932), Governor-General of the Bahamas beginning 2014
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Marguerite Porete (died 1310), French-speaking mystic
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Marguerite Porter Zwicker (1904–1993), Canadian watercolor painter and art promoter
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Marguerite Quinn, American politician elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2006
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Marguerite Scypion (c. 1770s–after 1836), African-Natchez slave who filed the first "
freedom suit" and ended Indian slavery in the state of Missouri in 1836
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Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar (, ; ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 190317 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and ...
(1903–1987), Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, first woman elected to the Académie française
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Marguerite Zorach
Marguerite Zorach (née Thompson; September 25, 1887 – June 27, 1968) was an American fauvism, Fauvist Painting, painter, textile artist, and graphic designer, and was an early exponent of modernism in America. She won the 1920 Logan Medal of t ...
(1887–1968), American painter, textile artist and graphic designer
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credi ...
(1928–2014), American author, poet, dancer, actress and singer, born Marguerite Annie Johnson
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Marguerite d'Youville (1701-1771), French Canadian widow who founded the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal
Fictional characters
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Marguerite St. Just, wife of the ''
Scarlet Pimpernel'' in the novel by the same name
* Marguerite Gautier, the heroine in the
Alexandre Dumas fils novel ''
La Dame aux Camelias''
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Marguerite Volant,
[ :fr:Marguerite Volant] main character of the 1996
Canadian
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...
mini-series by the same name
* Marguerite Krux, financier of an expedition to a Lost World in the late 1990s TV series ''
The Lost World'' based on a
book
A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, ...
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Marguerite, the heroine of
Gounod
Charles-François Gounod (; ; 17 June 181818 October 1893), usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been ''Faust (opera), Faust'' (1859); his ''Roméo et Juliette'' (18 ...
's opera ''
Faust
Faust ( , ) is the protagonist of a classic German folklore, German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a deal with the Devil at a ...
''
* Marguerite Baker, an antagonist and member of the
Baker family in the horror video game ''
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard''
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Marguerite Murphy; an elderly resident in Sunnyvale on the show
Trailer Park Boys
''Trailer Park Boys'' is a Canadian mockumentary television sitcom created by Mike Clattenburg that began airing in 2001 as a continuation of his 1999 film bearing the same name. The show follows the misadventures of a group of trailer park resi ...
* Marguerite Caine, main protagonist and heroine of
Claudia Gray
Claudia Gray is the pseudonym of Amy Vincent, an American writer of paranormal romance young adult fiction, best known for the Evernight (series), ''Evernight'' series and her ''Star Wars'' novels: ''Star Wars: Lost Stars, Lost Stars'', ''Star War ...
's "Firebird Series" beginning with "A Thousand Pieces of You"
* Margarita, main protagonist and heroine of
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( ; rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel ''The M ...
's novel
The Master and Margarita
''The Master and Margarita'' () is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published posthumously in ''Moscow (magazine), Moscow'' magazine in ...
.
See also
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Magritte
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Margueritte
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Marguerite (disambiguation)
References
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Feminine given names
French feminine given names
Given names derived from gemstones
Given names derived from plants or flowers